Sourcing Specialist

Sourcing Specialist - Supply Chain - San Diego, CA

We are seeking a highly experienced Sourcing Specialist to support strategic supply-related activities to deliver excellence and integration with the Procurement team. We manufacture the world’s most widely used family of mid-sized industrial gas turbines, ranging from 1 to 39 megawatts.

• Identifying, defining, and implementing integrated supply chain solutions and performance improvements, including building internal and external alliances to explore opportunities.
• Establishing and governing effective linkages, partnerships, and best practices with business partners and internal functions. Responsible for soundness of business proposals and risk assessment.
• Investigating and recommending industry benchmarks, metrics and best practices to develop optimal supply chains for suppliers and/or product sets.
• Developing and analyzing data and information to identify and prioritize opportunities for improving performance and creating more cost-effective supply chains, inventory utilization, and business partnerships.

Planning:
Tactical, Strategic:
Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Contributes to short-term operational plans.
• Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
• Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
• Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
• Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

Willingness to Travel - Always (The expectation for the candidate is to travel to a supplier site in Michigan and Texas 3 weeks out of the month)

Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years or a Master’s degree with 5+ years of experience in Supply Chain.

Experience creating Sourcing & Commodity Strategies

Castings experience, especially in investment castings

Degree in Supply Chain

6-sigma Blackbelt